Setting exposure compensation – Canon EOS D30 User Manual

Page 81

Advertising
background image

3

Adv

anced Oper

ations

81

Setting Exposure Compensation

Exposure compensation is used to alter the camera’s standard exposure setting to make the
picture brighter (overexposure) or darker (underexposure). Exposure compensation can be set
up to ±2 stops, in 1/2-stop increments.

1

Set the Quick Control Dial switch
to

ON

.

2

Focus on the subject, then check
the exposure level.

Press the shutter button down halfway and
check the display. (

)

3

Select the
exposure.

Turn the

dial.

Turn the

dial while pressing the shutter

button down halfway, or within (

)

seconds of pressing the shutter button

down halfway.

Positions on the [+] side indicate

overexposure, and positions on the [-] side
indicate underexposure.

Once set, the exposure compensation

remains in memory after the Main Switch is
set to

OFF

.

To cancel exposure compensation, return
the compensation setting to the standard
exposure position

.

4

4

To prevent the

dial from turning inadvertently and changing the exposure

compensation, enter the setting and then set the Quick Control Dial switch to

OFF

.

In

M

(Manual) mode, because you determine the exposure (the

combination of shutter speed and aperture) yourself, the exposure compensation
function does not operate.

You can set the camera so that you can set the exposure compensation amount in
1/3-stop increments. (C.Fn-4 →124)

Underexposure

Overexposure

Advertising